Re: TT Font question

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:

>In article <C1s9Fn.5r0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague) writes:
>>How come TrueType fonts for the GS (Pointless) don't contain the special
>>characters? Like the greek letter alpha or anything like that.

>They do, you simply have to use the Pointless Configure... option to allow
>Pointless to render all 256 characters.

Unfortunately, the letter alpha doesn't happen to be one of them. You'll need
the font called "Symbol" to get the entire Greek alphabet. It comes with the
Pointless package.

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